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background on where i live small town estimated 1500 people, somewhat racist, and canadian. questions 1. would you fursuit in a town this small why/why not 2. is it worth buying if im only going to 1 or 2 cons a year 3. is it worth buying considering there is only 1 other furry within 50 km 4. how can i convince my parents to let me get one 5. what should be the maximum i should spend on a fursuit based on the info in the previous questions. 6. what is your worst fursuiting experience

submitted by cobracol
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Hello Papabear

I have read some of your letters and while my problem is nowhere near as big as some of the ones you help people with I hope you can help me.

In my collage class for the past two years there is a girl who I was with often as she knew I liked similar things. I myself am not a people person and prefer to be alone, but as the rest of the class found her 'too odd' or weird and I had been in a similar position when I was in younger schools I tried to put up with her and not get annoyed. 

This has gone on for two years where we would sit and talk about games and other things and I would always engage in the conversations. However she has decided not to go on to the third year of the course as its optional and will be dropping out.

My problem is she has given me her number asking me to ring so we can still meet up. As I said I am not good with people and besides my mate (he’s male I’m in a straight relationship) and to be honest I don’t want to as I know she will keep ringing me and asking me to hang out but now I feel bad for thinking these things. 

Rudger

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Dear Rudger,

On the one paw, it was nice of you to befriend this person when no one else would, but now you are turning around and doing something quite cruel: you have misled this girl into thinking you were really her friend when you are not. By telling her—if you do so—that you don’t want her to call you because you’re not good with people or just don’t actually want her company, or whatever, you are teaching her that not only do most people not want to hang out with her but the people who pretend that they do are actually liars and she shouldn’t trust anyone anymore, even the ones who seem to extend a paw in friendship.

So, you “feel bad” about the  idea of telling her you don’t want to hang out anymore? You should. You want Papabear to give you a magic powder that will absolve you of your guilt? Better you should find a Catholic priest because Papabear doesn’t have any rosary beads on him.

Rudger, if you don’t want to be a sociable furry and would rather live and exist in isolation, that’s fine. Papabear passes no judgment on that. But what you are about to do is really hurt someone with false kindness, which, in a way, is worse than just hurting someone outright because it is dishonest.

Here are your options at this point: 1) since she’s no longer going to your school, you can simply ignore her and disappear like a sniveling coward; 2) you can tell her to her face what you have told me, which is at least honest, and tell her you are truly sorry but you just want to be by yourself and not socialize; or 3) you could actually try and remain this girl’s friend; after all, you said yourself you share some interests; you might even grow a bit and become a better person for doing so.

Papabear hopes you pick option 3.

Here is the concept piece for Eternal Twilight!:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj70H9nLS7M

Airship Battle Engine Concept (More recent than the test shown in the video above. Annotated, turn on Annotations!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI-3bKtTHjQ

Also, The Basic Story, and World Writeup can now be found on the IndieGoGo Page, too!!!

It's a piece showing some very early work on the game. My partner didn't wanna show it, but, well, it's seriously better than 'No concept'.

You can check out the IndieGoGo here!: http://www.indiegogo.com/coonpawstudio

So.. we need help! By that I mean, I need folks to share it via the buttons on the IndieGoGo campaign at the top!

We also need folks to contribute. The Paypal is at about 94 dollars (This includes contributions and my partner's story commission work money.), almooost, but not quite 25% of what we need to meet the first goal! So please consider contributing if you can!

Thank you, r/Furry!

This is a Karma Free Self-Post!

http://www.indiegogo.com/coonpawstudio

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For a couple months now, I've fully accepted that I am a furry. But, as the title says, I'm very closeted. I'm 17, and at this age, not a lot of people know what being a furry is really about. Most of my friends make fun of furries and say that they're terrible people. My family is very close-minded and would regard being a furry as a sin.

I'm scared to tell anyone because of what they might think. I mean, what if some of my friends don't want to be my friends anymore?

The thing is though that I really want to be open about who I am, especially to my friends. How do I tell everyone that I'm a furry?

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Author: Fred Are self-aware robots anthropomorphic? Hey, I think that I’ve asked this question before. The Cartoon Brew has posted Dubstep Dispute by Jason Giles, a 1:13 minute CGI film. Find the full article here: flayrah – furry food for thought Creative Commons: Full post may be available under a free license.

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Author: Squirrel We are young and strange. By tendency, at least, furries are non-conformists with many years ahead of them. That’s why the new health care law is a poison pill for our community. Right now there are people dangling “free” drugs and other medical care in front of us and promising there’s no cost; [...]

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Author: Sonious Yesterday, Flayrah published the first article tagged as opinion where the topic’s relation to the furry fandom was particularly light. Many might even say non-existent. It was a topic of personal interest to the author, who happens to be the main editor at this site. In the past, when other furry sites made [...]

How much should I charge for commissions?

I do badges or full page 11x18 full watercolor paintings. I am just breaking into commissions so I am unsure how much I should be charging really x__x;

Currently I'm doing about $10 a laminated watercolor badge with free shipping. Still not sure what to charge for a full page or if I should probably be charging more for a badge. The badges take me about 3-4 hours sketching, painting, drying, inking then doing fine detail work.

Here's some samples of my newest stuff.

http://i.imgur.com/U1SI5.jpg http://i.imgur.com/tpN5z.jpg

More badges: http://i.imgur.com/YACPE.jpg http://i.imgur.com/5X6gV.jpg

FA: http://www.furaffinity.net/user/frikky/

Thanks in advance guys :)

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Adam returns to entrain us all!

Click below to listen:

http://www.unfurled.net/episodes/UnFurled_-_Episode_57.mp3

Click to download | Open Player in New Window

Join us once again for craziness and rage!

Episode 57 – ERMAGERD - Adam returns to entrain us all! Join us once again for craziness and rage!

Yup, we definatley talk about stuff in this episode. Another female joins us this time too!

Click below to listen:

http://www.unfurled.net/episodes/UnFurled_-_Episode_56.mp3

Click to download | Open Player in New Window

Come and listen and enjoy!

Episode 56 – Quoth the Ravyn - Yup, we definatley talk about stuff in this episode. Another female joins us this time too! Come and listen and enjoy!

Author: Harvi We’re rebooting the podcast! Now you can take part in the Hop Inn from the beginning! When we catch up to the current episode we’ll update our iTunes Feed to point over here instead of the old, soon to be gone, site. We’ll be adding more information and links as this site progresses [...] [Series Reboot]Live From the Hop Inn Episode 308

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I've been doing requests for a while and my art gets a lot of positive feedback. I've been told I should charge for them a couple times. but how do I know how much to charge? my style is toony and simplistic, I was thinking like 3.00-4.00? are there some kind of guidelines you can inform me of? thanks.

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Including a lot of furry characters.

I tried out my fursona just to see what would happen and his second guess was "Your fursona."

Fun time-waster!

http://us.akinator.com/

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Hello,

I came across this site with the help of another furry and I've read through a couple of the letters and advice and figured I might ask for some advice for myself.

I've been having many problems lately, many many indeed. I've been having the most trouble with some that others laugh at or say there's nothing to them.

Firstly, I'm depressed, paranoid, have abandonment issues and almost always feel alone. I have thought about suicide, but I could never pull myself to do it, I fear death too much. That's another problem I have, I don't just fear death, I fear it to the point when thinking about death and having everything abruptly end forever brings me to near mental breakdown, I end up freaking myself out, crying, or even wishing I would just not wake up, so I would never have to actually experience dying. I see death as everything just ending, done, over with. No afterlife, no reincarnation, no heaven nor hell. Just, not even nothingness, not the null, no limbo. All consciousness ends, forever. That's what I am scared of...

Another problem is that I have no money. I have no job, no car, am practically in medical debt, live off of food stamps, live with my family still and I don't even have a sure place to stay if something goes wrong. My family is small, it's me, my grandmother and my cousins. My father is a drugged up alcoholic who wants nothing to do with his "Homo-fag son" and my mother is nowhere to be found (Last she was seen was in Texas), she never was a family person. If my grandmother dies, I'll end up on the streets because the house isn't even paid off yet. I live out in a Very Small place with only houses and the markets and places I could even try to work at are around a mile or more away. There's no one out here, I have no friends, all the people here are old and secretive, keeping to themselves always. I have no friends to help me out of this position either. All my old friends from Las Vegas have dropped contact and I have not met a single person out here. For 2 and a half years I have gone without being in the company of a friend, and it may go on longer...

Some more of my problems comes from my erratic love life. I was untouched and unloved by someone outside of the family till I became 18, then a guy practically rushed me into a relationship. It was nice to feel love from someone else, but it ended in him breaking my heart, not once but twice. Every boyfriend I had after him was either just as rushed and hurtful, or had no love. One time I had a long distance relationship with a wonderful boy, but I ended us because we lived far apart, and it hurt him and me, but he was able to recover, stabilize and find another, then another, and so on, but the pain I felt lasted until now, and it continues to hurt, I feel it was the biggest mistake I've made with a person and I haven't recovered even now. Out of all my past mates I shouldn't feel anything towards them, but I do, and I still talk to one or two of them, rarely. Something that comes up often that hurts me and makes me mad at the same time is hearing that they're in a good relationship. I just feel it eat away at my soul for some reason.

I'm currently in a long distance relationship with another guy, and it seems to be going decent, but I have doubts we will last, we already have had some altercations as well as we talk less and less...

I know it's all a mess, but maybe you could help me, even if just a little, I would really appreciate it.

Quez

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Dear Quez,

Papabear went through a phase where he was utterly afraid of death for the same reasons you cite. Fear of death is something that is more common in someone who is middle aged or older, such as yours truly, than a younger fur such as yourself, but it happens to younger folk as well.

One of the biggest reasons we have religion is that people desperately wanted to understand what happens after death, and so they came up with concepts such as Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory. Later, science became more prominent as a way to explain the universe and the life within it. As people began to understand that humans are not the center of the cosmos, that disease is caused by things such as bacteria and viruses rather than demons, and that all things die, including stars and the universe, there was an upswelling of cynicism, agnosticism, and atheism. People began to view human beings as merely biological machines that eventually wear out and cease to function. Consciousness, individualism, and the soul are merely illusions when following this reasoning, and, once the person closes his or her eyes for the last time, that is all she wrote.

Now, Quez, consider the source of both these theories: human beings. Unless you literally believe in the Bible and that people like Lazarus and Jesus came back to life, no human being has ever come back from the dead to tell people what it is like. Therefore, no one really knows what the truth is and what happens when we die.

If you’re interested, though, this is how Papabear got over his fear of death. Papabear believes that each of us contains a piece of God or the Ultimate Spirit within us. You might call it a soul, or a spirit, or whatever you wish. This is not something physical that you can point to, it is something that belongs to the realm of Spirit to which we are all tied.

The reason for the creation of the universe is to have a place where Spirit can reside, grow, and develop into a higher state of being. Each living thing that crawls, swims, flies, or walks upon the little chunks of rock and water scattered through the cosmos is experiencing, learning, and growing as part of this spiritual evolution. What we become by the end of our allotted time is what we take with us after death, each life’s experience becoming a building block of Spirit’s ultimate state of being with which we will all become reunited in the end.

This is why it is important for us to lead kind and loving lives, so that when we die our contribution to Spirit will be a positive one.

In the meantime, you have to live your life and not obsess about death. You mention two problems currently plaguing you: money and your love life. The former seems to be troubled mostly by family and location problems. You list so many problems that it is impossible for Papabear to tackle them properly in one letter, so I will begin by recommending you start seeking help outside the house. There are many government and private resources that may lend a hand, everything from government Social Services offices to religious groups to Boys Town (www.boystown.org) that you should look into. Start using the Internet as a resource to locate people who can help—and there ARE people out there willing to help, you just have to locate them.

As for your love life, well, Papabear doesn’t have enough information from you to make a recommendation. Just saying that you have had repeated failed relationships without going into more detail about what was said or done between you and your boyfriends makes it impossible to diagnose the issue and recommend a solution. One thing I did get a hint at, however, by reading between the lines is that you might be backing out of relationships when arguments ensue, rather than trying to face any disagreements and working them out. Relationships take work. You can’t just drop yourself into a relationship and expect everything to be hunky dory and, if it isn’t, run the other direction. Sounds like you need to put a bit more effort into your romantic relationships.

Good luck to you,

Papabear